1/ Enjoyed (and even teared up) watching , but it pigeonholed #turing's breadth & depth in computer science to war-time crypto
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2/ Turing's model of *what* is computable still the standard for what is fundamentally graspable knowledge & truth
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3/ Further, Turing's 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' still the standard for how we measure progress in AI.
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4/ Easy to trivialize this. But computers then were binary logic machines. No abstracted programming models. 'Big data' wasn't a thing.
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5/ Cutting through engineering limitations of time, & creating theoretical foundations was paramount. Hence his work still relevant today.
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6/ As pace of tech innovation accelerates, incumbent for entrepreneurs to think like Turing.
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This is easily my favorite tweet storm of all time. <3 I definitely teared up during that film too...